While many of us dabble with a few tattoos and small piercings, these people have changed their entire appearances thanks to their love of extreme body modification.
From the ‘human dragon’ who spent £61,000 on modifications, to the woman who had labia implants, meet the people with the world’s most extreme looks.
HUMAN DRAGON
Tiamat Legion Medusa, 60, from Texas, US, has spent more than £61,000 on modification surgeries including ear removal, tongue splitting, castration and countless tattoos.
Their goal is to become a “human dragon” and they are far from finished – with upcoming plans to remove their six remaining teeth in order to get a full set of dental implants designed to look like dragon’s teeth.
“I believe that I am a real and true life reptoid, a half-human/half-reptilian creature,” Legion, who currently works as a performing artist, told Jam Press.
“I can deal with being part human, just as long as I am also part reptilian because, with my being a transspecies, no longer being ‘just human’ gives me a peace that passes all understanding.”
TUSK TEETH
Orc, 41, has tattooed roughly 80% of his body and has also just invested £400 to get two giant fake teeth fitted into his mouth.
The tattoo artist, who comes from a small town of Iguatemi, which sits between the border of Paraguay and Brazil, admits he got his first tattoo when he was just 15, and his first modification at 35.
Orc has since gone on to get eight subdermal piercings (placed under the skin), his tongue split and his eyeballs tattooed.
Despite his unique appearance, the artist insists he is just trying to be himself.
He told Jam Press: “I am trying to be myself, these are just my ideas, my inspirations coming from the heart.”
DARK BARBIE
Aydin Mod, 20, from Rome, has a fascination with modifying her body to extreme lengths – starting at just 11 years old when she pierced her face with a needle in her bathroom.
Now, the young woman has spent over $5,000 on her transformations, including tattooing her eyeballs and face, and getting labia implants – which required her vagina to be stretched.
Her ultimate goal? To become the ‘body modification Barbie’.
“I don’t think I’ll ever stop modifying myself, I want to cover my whole body with tattoos for sure, more piercings, permanent metal teeth which I’m currently working on,” Aydin, who has monthly lip fillers, told Jam Press.
“I’ll probably tattoo my eyes again to have them more black and recently I started looking for more common surgeries as well.
“The only person I have to please is myself. For example, people call me ‘ugly’ but I don’t even consider it an insult, to be honest.”
NOSE REMOVAL
Raiden Dos Caras, 24, from Columbia, South America, has undergone over 20 surgeries to date to change his body in an attempt to become the most modified person in Latin America.
The dad-of-one started aged just 12 years old, when he had his first-ever tattoo and has had so much work done over the years that he has lost track of how much he has spent on his transformation but estimates it has cost him £12,000.
The young dad has so far had his ears and nose cut off, installed implants in his skull and undergone scarification branding.
Of his most difficult surgery – the nose removal – Raiden said: “It was very painful and I felt a lot of discomfort.
“Since I’ve had so many surgeries, the anaesthesia doesn’t have the same strength anymore, so I feel a lot of pain.
“Despite this being one of my most painful procedures, I think the duplications of the horns in my forehead comes close.”
DEVIL MAN
Michel Faro do Prado, 44, from Praia Grande coast, a small coastal town in São Paulo, Brazil has been dubbed the human “Satan” for his out of this world appearance, undergoing numerous body modifications to fit his devil-like image.
Michel, who has worked as a tattoo artist for 25 years, said he wants to look as sinister as possible, and has even gone to a dentist to shape his teeth into arches with plans to coat them entirely in metal.
Michel claims to have a high pain tolerance and said he doesn’t mind enduring more pain to achieve the body he desires.
He said: “Actually I have a good resistance to pain, I don’t think anything is so painful, I suffer a lot more in the post-procedures than at the time,
“And the truth is that there are changes that without anaesthesia would be almost impossible to be done, I would love not to feel any pain.
“But if I have to feel pain, to achieve what I want, for sure I will face it!”
